Whare Hauora Blessing

Panmure Bridge School is the home of New Zealand's first medicube. The purpose of this new building is to make sure that children are fit for school and that they get a sense of focus so that they do not worry about getting sick. Our nurses will carry on doing a good job and making sure we are alright for school. Like every new building at Panmure Bridge School the Maori blessing took place early in the morning and as we are in kapa haka we were asked to perform an item and represent our school. Our song was He Honore which was a nice soft song that we sang to with just an acoustic guitar. We were all proud of our efforts and it was a honour to partake in this event. The Kaumatua went around the medicube blessing the building in Maori. We all followed the visitors into the medicube looking at the space the health nurses are fortunate to receive.

Do we all have the same chance of having a healthy sleeping?

This week we have been separated into READ groups. In my group was Jeremiah, Freeman, Nyjah, Mataio and Affonso. Our task was to find out why sleep is so important for humans. One of the questions we were aiming as a group was Do all humans have the same chance of having a healthy sleeping? First we we focused only on our group and asked if we have the same chance of sleeping. We all said yes, but that hadn't mean that everyone has the same chance of sleeping because we explored other kids around the world you don't have a healthy sleep like us. A kid in Brazil sleeps on couches outside and a kid from Cambodia sleep on tyres and picks rubbish early in the morning. By learning why sleep is so important for us we also came through a work called inferring. Inferring means when you read between the lines and find hints in the text to answer a questions or guessing that something is true. Sleeping is important for your mental health because it restores our bodies and helps our brains to make strong memories and process about any information. People who don't have enough sleep or have sleeping problem can get to trouble as it can lead to disease such as heart & kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, and stroke.
Here is the link to where kids sleep from all around the world. 

Careers

This week as part of Inquiry LS2 have been exploring different careers and jobs. There is a different between and career and a job. A career is something that you want to do in your future as a job such as a NRL player and a job is a regular work that a person does to earn money for a living such as being a mechanical engineering. First Mrs Anderson gave us a site where we were to answer a few job/careers we were interested for example "How interested are to join in a work that involves: sport and recreation". There were 78 different kinds of jobs and the answers we were to pick were: not interested, neutral, fairly interested or, very interested. After we've answered all our questions were were given many choices of jobs/careers we might be interested to do in the future. Soon after that we were to get into partners, but the partners had to have the similar job. I had a lot of mechanical engineering jobs listed and jobs including vehicles. At the end we shared with the class what we wanted to be in the future and also our salary. In the future I want to be a pilot and this job if you fly domestic routes (e.g Auckland to Christchurch) you earn an amount of $50K - $190K per year and if you fly international routes (e.g New Zealand to Australia) your earn $80K-$300K.

My Rugby Match Against Mangere East

This week was our second to last game before the season ends. My team Pakuranga Broncos Under 14's verse Mangere East. Everyone wanted to see this game because we were versing for 5th and 6th place. We really wanted to come 5th so we had to really work hard both in our defense and attack. The position I was playing was halfback (No.6). In the first half we were focused on communicating to each other and doing a lot of gang tackling (when a group of people tackle a person). We did really well but Mangere East used a lot of their forwards to break through our defense line and score 3 tries against us only loosing 1 conversation which made it 16 -0. Then in the second half Lomio (loose forward No.13) managed to score a try loosing the conversion making it 16-4. Then Mangere East scored two more tries loosing their conversation making it 24-4. Soon Lomio scored another try loosing the conversion making it 24-8. Then I managed to score us 2 tries making it 24-16 (loosing the conversions). Then Mangere East managed to score 2 more tries which made the score to 36-16. At the end one of our best prop Pio scored our last try making it 36-20 (we didn't get the last conversion in). We were happy even though we lost because we only played with 9 players and they had 13 players (which is a full team). I think next time my team needs to fix on the little errors such as knock on's, forward passes, high tackling etc.   

My Rugby Match against Papakura

Today was our third to last game of rugby league before the season ends. today the Under 14's (my rugby team) had an amazing game of football because we verse one of our rivals which was the Papakura Griffins. It was great to see how all supporters were there. Everyone was really excited for this game and also the supporters. Today I played number 6 which is one of the half (the ones who does the moves or plays). Everyone showed a lot of sportsmanship to each others but there was a little brawl in the beginning of the first half of the game. Papakura only had 12 players on the field and we underestimated them but fifteen minutes later Papakura scored against us which made it 4-0. Soon they scored another try making it 8-0 (loosing the conversions). Luckily in the first half I scored my teams the first try in the game which made it 8-4. Unfortunately at the end we lost 24-8. I think next time my team needs to communicate a little bit more to each other and also slide left/right when it's defense time.

Tech Reflection - Cooking

It is the last week of the term meaning we will not learn anything for the nest two week (holidays). Today we cooked Meat Pies with Mrs Tuipolotu. It was interesting to see how people were cooping with challenges of cooking the meat pies because there were some onions that were over cooked and some of the ham was not cooked fully so they had to cook the ham for another 5-10 minutes. At the end everyone was happy of what they cooked and enjoyed their Meat Pie. We are looking forward to see what were going to cook for next terms sessions.

Here is the Recipe:

Step 1 - Dice the onion, ham, and mince

Step 2 - Fry the onion first, and then ham, and mince

Step 3 - Add the sauce, soya, sauce, and cornflour, mix herbs

Step 4 - Place the pastry on the round baking tin foil

Step 5 - Pour all your meat in and bake 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

The La Jument Lighthouse | France

One of Mr Johnson's homework challenge was to read the given site about the La Jument lighthouse in France. Most of us did the homework set for us and came back to school and shared the information with others. The La Jument lighthouse is located in the west-coast of France near Brittany. This lighthouse is famous because of the photos that was taken by a second prize winner of World Press photographer name Jean Guichard who was born in 1952 in France, Paris. This had a story to it which is written on the DLO above. It talks about how Jean Guichard circles the lighthouse and takes photo of the big waves pounding into the lighthouse. Suddenly the owner of the lighthouse (Therodore Malgorn) heard the helicopter and cane to seek if it was help. He came outside but then the waves were about to come so he went back inside. Luckily he was saved by Jean Guichard and the helicopter pilot through another exit. Apparently according to Mr Johnson's hypothesis Theodore Malgorn was fired from looking after the lighthouse because of his careless actions towards the lighthouse.  

Pros (Positive) and Cons (Negative)

Today as one of Mr Johnson's activities we went into our groups and discussed what the negative part of living in a lighthouse is and what the positive parts of living in a lighthouse is. In my perspectives I think the most negative or boring thing living in a lighthouse is not playing or doing your favorite thing such as playing rugby or for some men's drinking alcohol at a bar and hanging out with your friends. I think there is a lot of postie things living in a lighthouse such as: No paying bills, Fishing, or you can exercise by walking up and down the stairs to get to where you want to go. I think the most positive think of living in a lighthouse is you don't need to drive to work and being late because you're already sleeping at work which means all you have to do is wake up and it's work time. As you can see the photo above is the list of the pro's and con's you might deal with if your living in a lighthouse. In my opinion I wouldn't work in a lighthouse because you don't have neighbors (which means your lonely) and when the milk is finish who's going to deliver you more milk? 

Lighthouse for Sale | Burnham High Lighthouse Advertisement

This week Mr Johnson has been teaching us about different lighthouses such as the La Jument lighthouse in France and also the Nugget Point Lighthouse which is located in the region of Otago in the South Island of New Zealand. Mr Johnson seted a task for us which was to make an advertisement of any lighthouse around the world. I went on lighthouses for sale and saw the Burnham Hight Lighthouse which is located at Burnham Sea in England. I was to exchange the Birtish pounds into New Zealand dollars and Iv'e noticed that in New Zealand if you were to buy the lighthouse it would cost more than you would to buy it with British pounds. This lighthouse has three bedrooms and it also has a Lantern room at the top of the lighthouse. It also has an amazing view where you can see the ocean. 

ASB Getwise Reflection

Today we had Jayden from ASB who came to talk to us how saving money is very important in our lives. To help us perceive the message that saving money is important Jayden created a game where we were splitted into 5 groups and pretend we went to Fiji. We had a budget of $1,800 and was to spend it wisely on before we went to Fiji like our passport, the flights, accommodation, Insurance and the money were going spend at Fiji for things such as food, groceries, and activities (like swimming with the sharks). There were a range of choices for some of the subjects such as flights had two prices. One price was $200 where you are in a seat that's uncomfortable or a flight for $700 where you have luxury seat and also food ordered to you. Our group (which was group 3) decided to take the cheaper options than the expensive which was a good idea. At the end we were happy because we cam 2nd.  

Matariki Celebration at P.B.S

Today P.B.S held a special Matariki celebration and also gathered families and friends. At the Matariki ceremony there were also the kindergarten kids who are next to our school. We celebrated Matariki by sharing cultural group items, performances such as the drumming group, and also food which we had delicous sausages. First every one were singing our waiata song we always sing at assembly which is He Hone Rei. This was a really enjoyable song to sing with families and friends. After that the Kapa Haka group performed their items and also managed to do the Haka. It was really great to see how everyone was really confident and representing their culture. Everyone was shocked of how Joseph (Haka Leader) started the Haka off. Soon after the Kapa Haka's performance we had the drumming group who were outstanding. It was really good to see how each of them were on the same beat. I think the drumming group did a great job because they'd only practice today for 1 hour. Soon we had the Ukulele group performing the song Lean on me by Bill Withers. This was a really amazing song which everyone was singing to. Our last group performance was the Pasifika group. In my perspectives I think this was my best performance I've seen today because of the dances and also the drumming. At the end we enjoyed sausages. I would like to say a bit thank you to Mrs Whaia Odie who planned to celebrate this ceremony and also to other teachers and students who help set up the celebration. 

Chicago Sport Teams | Research

This week Mrs Anderson has come from the United States, Chicago, Illinois and has shared some amazing information about her trip and her conference. As Mrs Anderson and Ms Kirkpatrick went to Chicago we have created group DLO's about the main team sports that they play in Chicago such as the Chicago Bulls NBA team or the Chicago Black Hawks Ice Hockey team. There were 5 specific teams that we were to do which are: Black Hawks (Hockey Team), Chicago Bulls (Basketball Team), White Sox (Baseball Team), Cubs (Another Baseball Team), and Chicago Bears (American Football Team). We have include some information and facts about all teams and also attributed photos of their logos and stadiums. We had 5 people in our groups witch meant we had a fair amount of work to finish. 

Nugget Point Lighthouse | Brief History

For the past few days Mr Johnson has been has been teaching LS2 about the different lighthouses in New Zealand. There are 23 active lighthouse and 75 beacons. My group who are Alex, Avalon, Carl, Joshua W and I have picked one of the active lighthouse Nugget Point Lighthouse which is operated by a company called Maritime New Zealand. This lighthouse was automated in 1989 but before that there were a couple who looked after the lighthouse. There names were Walter Hutton Champion and his wife Alice. Nugget Point lighthouse can be found in Otago which is in the region of the South Island of New Zealand. The DLO above explains a brief history of Nugget Point house such as how it was operated during different times and also the specifications about the lighthouse. 

Information Poster about Matariki

L.I - Researching about Matariki

This week LS2 and LS1 are working collaboratively learning about the history of Matariki. We were in small groups of 4 and was to explore the history of Matariki. I have worked collaboratively with Julian and Chris, Alayah, and Farzanan who were from LS1. First we watched a video about what Matariki is and the how they celebrate it. We gathered all information we heard from the video and learnt a lot of information such as; Before Maori people had calender's they observed time using real life events such as following the plants, flowers or the movement of the stars in the sky. At the end we made an information poster writing down all facts we collected on our piece of paper. Matariki is a important mark of the Maori New year and it's time to remember the past and plan for the future. It is a great event where families and friends come together and enjoy their time embracing Matariki and also cultural groups.